From strawberries under torture one may extract all sorts of things. - Stanisław Lem

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

It is no coincidence, I am sure, that those who have the most to say about the Project are the ones who have had no direct contact with it. Which is similar to the attitude physicists have regarding gravitation or electrons — as opposed to that of the "well-informed" who read popular science. The "well-informed" think they know something about matters that the experts are reluctant to even to speak of. Information at second hand always gives an impression of tidiness, in contrast with the data at the scientist's disposal, full of gaps and uncertainties.